About us
Why we built DataAssist-IO
The short version: your team's questions shouldn't wait in an analyst queue. The longer version is below — along with where to reach the people who built it.
Early-stage and honest about it · a founder reads every message
Our story
A queue we got tired of watching
Three paragraphs of how we got here, and one of who we are.
We started DataAssist-IO because we kept watching the same scene play out. Someone in sales, finance, or ops needs a number — which accounts went quiet, which invoices are overdue, what's stuck in shipping. The answer sits in a database a query away, but between the person and the answer stand a ticket, an analyst queue, and days of waiting for something that takes seconds to run. By the time the answer arrives, the moment that needed it has passed.
Then the ground shifted. The people asking those questions were already talking to Claude and ChatGPT every day — and the Model Context Protocol gave those AI clients a standard, permissioned way to use outside tools. That was the insight: the AI your team already trusts can query your data directly, if something stands in the middle keeping every query read-only, deciding who sees which tables, and writing every question to an audit log.
So that's what we built — the something in the middle. You connect a spreadsheet or a live database with a form, paste one URL into your AI client, and ask in plain English. Files you upload are stored encrypted in your organization's isolated workspace; live databases are never copied — queried read-only, in place. Setup takes about ten minutes, and nobody has to learn SQL.
What you will find is a small team that answers its own support inbox and treats one promise as unbreakable: the AI can look, never touch.
Plain talk
What it is — and what it isn't
Knowing what a tool refuses to be is half of trusting it.
What it is
- ✓The plain-English query layer inside Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client — your team asks where they already work.
- ✓Read-only by construction — statements are validated SELECT-only before execution; writes never reach your data.
- ✓Team-governed — admins choose exactly which tables each team can see, backed by a per-question audit trail.
What it isn't
- ✕Not a BI suite. There's no chart builder to learn — your AI client does the asking, the answering, and the presenting.
- ✕Not a dashboard tool. It answers the question you have right now; it doesn't add another wall of panels to maintain.
- ✕Not a data warehouse. Live databases stay exactly where they are — queried in place, never copied in.
Contact
Talk to a human who built it
A connector question, a security review for your IT team, or a "will this work on our data?" — all welcome.
Reach us directly
We're a small team, so there's no tier-one script between you and an answer. Every message lands in a founder's inbox.
Sending your IT team? Point them at the security overview — it's written to be forwarded.
Not sure we cover your data? The integrations page lists every source we connect to.
No newsletter, no drip sequence — just a reply.
See it answer your first question.
Connect a source, paste one URL into Claude or ChatGPT, and ask. If you get stuck, we're one email away.
Start free — 30 questions on us30 free questions · no credit card · read-only access · ~10-minute setup